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These apps are building Instagram alternatives on open protocols Consumer demand for alternatives to Big Tech’s social apps is heating up. Alternative social networks like Bluesky and Mastodon are gaining…

How to use Apple’s new event planning ‘Invites’ app Apple has released a new app called Invites that is designed to make it easy to create custom invitations for events…

Trump ends legal battle over Twitter ban President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company formerly known as Twitter appears to be over. Trump sued the social media platform for banning…

Apple’s new research robot takes a page from Pixar’s playbook Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits…

Elon Musk said he’s not interested in acquiring TikTok Elon Musk recently said he is “not chomping at the bit to acquire TikTok.” Musk made those remarks during an interview…

Ex-Meta employee sues for sexual harassment Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re diving into Google quietly removing its pledge to not build AI weapons for surveillance; how…

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li says AI policy must be based on ‘science, not science fiction’ Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford computer scientist and startup founder sometimes known as “the Godmother of…

Autodesk CTO Raji Arasu calls for diversity in the teams building AI To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch…

Why the ‘spirit’ of open source means much more than a license Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative…

Christie’s announces AI art auction, and not everyone is pleased Fine art auction house, Christie’s, has sold AI-generated art before. But soon, it plans to hold its first show dedicated…